thezensite:updates to this site

This page lists all the changes to thezensite. Check here regularly to see what's new. Previous years' updates have been moved to separate pages. Click on the links to view the archive but be warned that many of the direct links no longer work due to redesigns of this site. Use the search function to find files. Questions, broken links, suggestions, etc, please .

Archive: 2004;2005;2006; 2007; 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013,

2011
December
9	Great Fool: Zen Master: Ryõkan, Poems, Letters, and Other Writings by Ryoichi Abé and Peter Haskel reviewed by Burton Watson added to Book Reviews page
November
7	The Teachings of Master Wuzhu: Zen and Religion of No-Religion by Wendi L Adamek book reviewed by Vladimir K added to Book Reviews page
October
11	Yoko Arisaka: Beyond "East and West": Nishida's Universalism and Postcolonial Critique has been added to Zen Essays: Philosophical page

September
5	Bushidó or Bull? A Medieval Historian's Perspective on the Imperial Army and the Japanese Warrior Tradition by Karl F. Friday has been added to Miscellaneous Essays Page

August
26	Buddhism and Christianity: a multicultural history of their dialogue by Whalen Lai and Michael von Bruck book review by David Loy added to Book Reviews page
12	Maseo Abe's Self-Awakening and Faith — Zen and Christianity has been added to Zen Essays: Philosophical
10	Robert Aitken's Amazing Life by John Tarrant and a reply by Nelson Foster and Jack Shoemaker An Open Letter on Journalistic Integrity and the Shambhala Sun have been added to Zen Essays Miscellaneous
10	link to Interview with Stuart Lachs has been added to Critical Zen page
10	Scandals in Emerging Western Buddhism by Dr Sandra Bell has been added to Critical Zen page
1	book review of Colleen Busch's Fire Monks: Zen Mind Meets Wildfire at the Gates of Tassajara has been added to Book Reviews page
July
24	Stephen Jenkins: Making Merit through Warfare and Torture According to theAccording to the Ārya-Bodhisattva-gocara-upāyavisaya-vikurvana-nirdeśa Sūtra has been added to Critical Zen page
24	Michael Zimmerman: Only a Fool Becomes a King: Buddhist Stances on Punishment has been added to Critical Zen page
1	Update and add links to Mudras on the Non-Zen sites page
June
28	James E. Ketelaar's The Non-Modern Confronts The Modern: Dating The Buddha In Japan has been added to Historical Zen page
26	book review of Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism and Psychedelics has been added to Book Reviews page
26	book review of Wild Geese: Buddhism in Canada has been added to Book Reviews page
25	Zen Jokes page has been updated on non-Zen Miscellaneous page
18	A Day in the Life: Two Recent Works on Dogen's Shōbōgenzō Gyoji [Sustained Practice] Fascicle book review by Steven Heine added to Dogen Studies page and Book Reviews page
18	Critical Buddhism the Debate Concerning the 75-fascicle and 12-fascicle Shōbōgenzō Texts by Steven Heine added to Dogen Studies page and Critical Zen page

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13	Update links to the The Soto Zen Text Project at Stanford University's translation of Dogen's Shobogenzo on the Shobogenzo Complete page
13	Volumes 3 & 4 of Dogen's Shobogenzo translated by Nishimima & Cross added to Dogen Teachings page
13	Asaf Federman: Literal Means and Hidden Meanings: a New Analysis of Skillful Means has been added to Philosophical Zen page
12	Jonathan Silk: What, If Anything, Is Mahayana Buddhism? Problems Of Definitions And Classifications has been added to Philosophical Zen page
11	Peter N Gregory's Is Critical Buddhism Really Critical? has been added to Critical Zen page
11	Is Zen Buddhism? by David R Loy has been added to Critical Zen page
10	Kubota Ji'un: Apology for What the Founder of the Sanbo Kyodan, Yasutani Haku'un Roshi, Said and Did During World War II: has been added to Critical Zen page

May
15	The "Negative Side" of D. T. Suzuki's Relationship to War by Brian Victoria and Brian Victoria and the Question of Scholarship by Kemmyō Taira Satō have been added to Critical Zen page
15	Tracing The Rhetoric Of Contemporary Zen: Dogen Sangha And The Modernization Of Japanese Zen Buddhism In The Light Of A Rhetorical Analysis Of A Weblog by Johannes Cairns has been added to the Dogen Studies page
April
23	Karma, War and Inequality in Twentieth Century Japan by Brian Victoria added to Critical Zen page
March
26	When the Saints Go Marching In: Modern Day Zen Hagiography by Stuart Lachs added to Critical Zen page

February
13	essay by David R Loy: The Problem with Karma has been added to Commentaries and Teishos page
12	book review of Brad Warner's Sex, Sin and Buddhism:A Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between by Bhikkhu Cintita Dinsmore added to Book Reviews page
January
19	link to Prairie Zen Center added to Zen Centers page